How to Take a Shamanic Journey
A self-paced foundational training in journeying — the practice that lets you communicate with spirit directly, no intermediary required.
A Complete Introduction to the art & Practice of Journeying
Shamanic journeying is the practice of intentionally shifting your consciousness — usually with rhythmic drumming or rattling — so that you can travel into non-ordinary reality and communicate with the spirit world.
Versions of it show up in Norse, Celtic, Egyptian, Taoist, Mayan, and dozens of other traditions. The core technology is human-old, human-wide, and remarkably accessible.
In a journey, you can:
Meet your power animals, ancestors, and spirit guides
Receive healing for yourself or someone else
Get clarity on a decision you've been circling for months
Find lost parts of yourself, work with shadow material, or recover energy you've leaked
Co-create with the spirits of the natural world
What sets journeying apart from meditation is the intention — you're not emptying your mind, you're going somewhere specific to do something specific — and the cosmology, which gives you an actual map of the realms you're traveling through.
One thing worth saying clearly: you don't need to be psychic, sensitive, or "naturally gifted" to journey. Most people aren't, in the way they think they're supposed to be. Journeying teaches you how to receive — through whatever channels are most natural for you — and the more you do it, the clearer it gets.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
Take a shamanic journey on your own, with a clear sense of what you're doing, where you're going, and how to come back. (Including how to handle the moments when your mind insists you're just making it all up.)
Meet a power animal — one of your primary spirit guides — and begin building a working relationship with them.
Travel to the upper, middle, and lower worlds of shamanic cosmology, knowing what each is for and how to navigate without getting lost.
Interpret what you receive without needing a translator or guru. You'll learn to work with your own clairs, recognize symbolism, and tell the difference between real guidance and your own inner committee.
Lay the foundation for deeper shamanic work — soul retrieval, extraction, psychopomp, healing others — should you ever want to go that direction. Journeying is the prerequisite for all of it.
Your Guide
Hi. I’m Juniper Stokes. I’m an animist, alchemist, and spiritual teacher devoted to helping you reconnect with your soul, your intuition, and the sacred wild within and around you.
I've been on a shamanic path for over two decades. I received my first shamanic healing at sixteen, and I've been studying ever since.
My training includes a three-year core shamanic practitioner program, Sandra Ingerman's two-year shamanic teacher training, and in-depth study in Norse, Celtic, Egyptian, Taoist, and Mayan traditions. I run Alchemessence, a perfume and soul restoration practice based in Bend, Oregon, and teach a year-long spiritual leadership apprenticeship called the Wild Alchemy Practitioner Program.
What you’ll receive:
★ An Introduction to Shamanism (PDF primer). Short, clean, and oriented toward giving you the conceptual foundation before you start journeying. Cosmology, key terms, common misconceptions, what shamanism is and isn't.
★ Seven audio lessons. Each one runs 10–20 minutes — built for humans with actual schedules. Listen on a walk, in the car, while making dinner. The lessons walk you step-by-step through the practice and culminate in a guided journey to meet a power animal.
★ A companion PDF. The written counterpart to the audio lessons, for the readers and re-readers among us. Includes the journey instructions in a form you can refer back to easily.
★ A living Q&A document. As students send me questions over time, I add the answers (and the questions) to a shared document that everyone with lifetime access can read. Your one-time enrollment buys you the course as it exists today and as it grows.
★ A curated recommended reading list. The handful of books I'd actually press into your hands if we were sitting across from each other, organized by what each one is good for.
★ Lifetime access. Yours to revisit whenever you want, on whatever device you want. No monthly fee, no expiring login.
Who I made this for
You're a good fit if:
You're curious about shamanism and ready to actually try it, not just read about it
You want a direct, personal relationship with spirit, no intermediary
You're a sensitive, an intuitive-in-the-making, or a long-time inner-work person ready to add a new tool
You're considering deeper shamanic training somewhere down the line and want a real foundation
You like teachers who take the work seriously and themselves not very
You're probably not a fit if:
You're looking for someone to tell you exactly what your spirit guides are saying (this course teaches you to hear them yourself)
You want a single, geographically-rooted lineage tradition (this is a cross-cultural foundational layer)
You're hoping for a quick fix or a one-time peak experience (journeying is a practice, and like any practice, it gets richer the more you do it)
Things people ask before signing up
Is this safe? Yes — journeying done correctly is a practiced, protected, and deeply ancient form of inner travel. The lessons cover protection, common pitfalls, and how to handle anything unexpected.
Do I need to be psychic or "spiritual" to do this? You only need to be yourself. Journeying is a learnable skill, and your unique way of perceiving becomes clearer the more you practice.
How long does the course take? You can move through the audio lessons in a single weekend or stretch them over a few months. Most people land somewhere in between. Lifetime access means there's no clock.
Is this connected to plant medicine or psychedelics? No. The shamanic journeying in this course uses rhythmic sound — typically drumming — to shift consciousness.
What if I try and "nothing happens"? Common, normal, addressed in the lessons. ("Nothing happened" almost always means "something happened and I didn't trust it." Half the work is learning to recognize what counts!)
Can I get a refund? All purchases are non-refundable.
Ready to Journey?
If you've read this far, the practice is calling you. (Not a sales line — that's how this actually works.)
Lifetime access to The Art of the Shamanic Journey is only $47.
We acknowledge that this workshop takes place on land ceded under pressure to Oregon Territory in the Treaty of 1855 by Paiute, Wasco, and Warm Springs tribal chiefs. May our work be in service to the benevolent beings who still tend this sacred land.